February 26th: Robotics Meeting

Today was decent. I got the school WI-FI password, so I was able to use my new laptop at school.

In today's robotics meeting, we ended the meeting at 8 today, and so will the subsequent meetings for this week, because we need to finish the robot soon.

The parts that the electronics team needed today finally arrived. They prepared all of the motors and began moving all of the components to the final electrical board.

For the programming team, we experimented with 3D printing a better case for our camera mount. The folks who were doing it did an amazing job and were able to get the pieces to fit in with each other perfectly, so we just need to print the final, densest versions for the camera mount.

We also learned about PID control too. We'll be needing it for our drive system that we're making. Basically, we're making a field-centric swerve control system for tank drive. Using a swerve system is awesome, but we don't have a swerve system. However, we'll basically be using PID so that the job of turning the robot around will be abstracted away. I think that will make our driver's lives a lot better.

Lastly, we tried to estimate the position of the robot using photonvision, but examples are far and few between, so it's hard for us to get the code working. We'll try again tomorrow!

Today was pretty productive, but I think we'll need to work even harder for our robot to be completed by this weekend.

Thanks for reading,
Issac